About the Author

Alfred de Grazia was born 1919 in Chicago and studied at University of Chicago. He taught at the U. of Minnesota, Brown U., Stanford U. and New York University. He published some 30 books in the field of political science, and some 20 more in fields from poetry to philosophy. Soon after the chemical disaster in Bhopal, he journeyed there with his wife Anne-Marie. This book is the fruit of his research and reflection.